Liangyue Farm Gate

Chapter 271

The atmosphere in the Li family is heavy.

Li Houzhong sat on the north seat and frowned for a long time. He glanced at his wife with red and swollen eyes, and then at his daughter who was holding a bowl to feed Xiaodou to eat rice paste. He sighed and said to Mrs. Liu: " Have a good meal, isn't your appearance making your daughter uncomfortable?"

Mrs. Liu gave him a hard look, turned her head and did not speak to him.

Li Houzhong was baffled—when did he offend this woman again?

Simply not to provoke her, Li Houzhong took a piece of bacon for Li Xin and said, "Girl, eat more."

Li Xin nodded and said, "Thank you dad."

Li Houzhong laughed, thinking that his daughter was sensible and caring, and never had a fight with him.

After dinner, Li Xin borrowed a set of Shanzi's clothes from Mrs. Zhang, and took Yang'er to bathe him.Mrs. Liu stood at the door of Li's house and looked towards the village entrance, muttering, "What's wrong with Erlang, he's not coming back at this time."

Zhang said: "Mother-in-law, don't worry."

"Why don't you worry?" Liu sighed, "I shouldn't have let him go today, because of his temper... Didn't he just tear himself apart with the Guan family yesterday?"

Mrs. Zhang thought about it, and said comfortingly: "Second brother is also going to be a father, and he has a proper way of doing things. He will definitely be back in a while."

Li Houzhong moved a stool and sat in the yard, knocked on the cigarette stick, called Mrs. Liu over and said to her, "What do you think about Xiner?"

Mrs. Liu snorted at Li Houzhong bitterly, making Li Houzhong even more baffled.

What's going on, I showed him face during dinner, and now I still show him face - did he provoke his own wife today?
Li Houzhong thought about it from beginning to end - no!Today he didn't even say a few words to his wife, why did he offend her?
But Li Houzhong is used to being soft in front of Mrs. Liu, and he just accepts it when Mrs. Liu shows him face. At this time, he still shyly stepped forward and asked Mrs. Liu again: "Damn mother, what do you say?" .”

Mrs. Liu wanted to get angry at Li Houzhong very much, and the words were stuck in her throat. Thinking of what her daughter said to her before, she swallowed it back, and said to Li Houzhong angrily: "You didn't hear what Erlang said yesterday. ? Xin'er's father-in-law is so virtuous... It's fine if he doesn't defend his daughter-in-law, but even worse, he said he was going to divorce your daughter!"

Speaking of this, Mrs. Liu was very angry: "You have a bit of a son's temper? Why didn't you get angry? You just bear it like this!"

Li Houzhong immediately moved away from Liu Shi - his ears hurt from the vibration.

"I know, I know..." Li Houzhong hurriedly said: "I know! But you also said, that is the girl's father-in-law, how should I say this..." Li Houzhong sighed lightly: "Didn't the girl say that she really didn't?" After dealing with Guan Wen, there is still room for change, and it will not be too late for me to make a comeback, so my in-laws should not underestimate us..."

"My in-laws, you are so loud!" Mrs. Liu slapped Li Houzhong hard on the back: "I shouldn't have found such a family in the first place!"

Li Houzhong frowned slightly: "You can't talk nonsense. This marriage was introduced by Mrs. Li. Guan Wen is not a bad guy, but there are some things that the two of them can't get along with. You have to say We shouldn't be looking for such a family, isn't this even complaining about Mrs. Li? It's not good to hear it..."

Mrs. Liu sat down resentfully, thinking about what Li Xin said in her heart, and couldn't help sighing.

Li Houzhong asked her tentatively: "You said... how about we add some more dowry to our daughter so that she can have more money and live a more comfortable life?"

"Why do you give money to your daughter? Isn't that money the same as your daughter..." Liu closed her mouth halfway through speaking, stretched out her leg and kicked Li Houzhong's foot and said, "Move away, you are coming up with bad ideas."

Li Houzhong just smiled, and said to Liu: "I see that my son-in-law is quite a good man. Apart from the scar on his face, he looks decent and tall. It's hard to say... It's just that his father is a little bit at odds with his daughter, and this has to be adjusted slowly..."

"Just get used to it slowly, you and Guan Wen have the same temperament!"

Mrs. Liu couldn't help scolding him: "Don't you dare to say so? You have been calming down all these years, and it was the same when you were with your elder brother and third younger brother. I didn't deal with your mother very much, and I didn't deal with it when I was young. Don't be wronged, even if the family is separated, you will still be angry with your mother, if it weren't for Xin'er...you might still look like a coward, you are so useless!"

When it comes to this Mrs. Liu, she is even more confident: "People say that a daughter is like a father, and a son is like a mother. I have never heard that a son-in-law is like a father-in-law. You two son-in-laws really have a temperament, and your elbows are self-righteous. Instead, he treats his daughter-in-law as an outsider."

Li Houzhong smiled embarrassingly, and his face was not very good-looking.

Li Xin's betrayal has always been a scar in his heart.

After scolding Mrs. Liu, it was easier. Seeing that Li Houzhong was not so angry anymore, he answered Li Houzhong's question seriously and said: "Xiner said that she has her own sense of propriety, and let her handle this matter first. I know what the meaning of his Guan family is, it's been a night and a day, and I haven't seen Guan Wen come to look for Xin'er."

Mrs. Liu looked out of the yard as she spoke: "Erlang hasn't come back yet... He said he would come back today to tell us about the Guan family's situation. Maybe he stayed at the Guan family's place to rest today..."

Just as she was talking, Mrs. Liu squinted her eyes, and looked at someone running up the road from a distance. Looking at that figure and walking posture, isn't it her second son?

He quickly stood up to meet him, and shouted loudly, "Erlang is back?"

The other side responded, and Li Erlang walked back quickly after a while.Mrs. Liu hurriedly poured water for him and asked him to sit in the room, and looked behind her again.

Li Erlang took a sip of water and let out a deep breath, calling his mother immediately and said: "Don't look, there's no one behind!"

Li Xin happened to bathe Yang'er, put on the inner clothes for him, carried him and a pile of coats to the main room, and just heard Li Erlang's words.

"Xin'er..."

Mrs. Liu paused, and hurriedly made room to pull Li Xin over to sit.

Li Xin's expression was very calm, and he took advantage of the situation and sat down to continue dressing Yang'er.

Li Erlang touched his head in embarrassment, Mrs. Liu guessed that he must not have eaten, so she said to go to the kitchen to warm up the food for him.

While dressing Yang'er, Li Xin asked, "What happened to Lotus Village?"

She asked plainly, which made it hard for Li Erlang to speak, and he couldn't guess what Li Xin was thinking, so he was too anxious.

If only the third brother was here!It's a pity that the third brother went to "Yunyou Going to School" with Mr. Gu during this period of time. It would take a few months to go, and it is impossible to come back now...

Li Houzhong put away the cigarette stick and entered the main room, Yang'er called "Grandpa", Li Houzhong sat down on the stool, looked at Li Xin, and asked Li Erlang, "Where is your brother-in-law?"

"...is sick, lying in bed and unable to get up..."

Li Erlang looked at Li Xin's expression while talking, and saw that his sister just paused, and said in a deep breath: "I went there at noon, and I didn't see my brother-in-law. The second brother-in-law told me that yesterday After my sister left, my brother-in-law didn't feel well, and then he fainted. I asked the doctor to see what it was... I was so angry that my chest was stuffy and I couldn't breathe out. That's why I was unconscious. When I went, my brother-in-law was awake..."

"And then?" Li Houzhong asked hurriedly.

Mrs. Liu came out with sweet potato steamed buns and stir-fried vegetables. Li Erlang grabbed the steamed buns and ate them, saying, "Brother-in-law just asked me if my sister was okay, and I said she was fine, so he didn't say anything. Then I went back to sleep by myself, and I didn't look very refreshed..."

Liu clenched her fists angrily and thumped the table: "He can hold his breath!"

Then he looked at Li Xin again.

Li Xin didn't stop, and has been slowly putting on clothes for Yang'er, and now he just put on the clothes, hugged Yang'er up and said: "Father, mother, second brother, it's getting late, go to bed early Bar."

Li Xin carried Yang'er back to the house. Liu looked at the house where the oil lamp was turned on for a while, and then even the oil lamp was turned off after a while. She sighed silently, looked at Li Erlang and said, "You just want to see the lamp." I didn't ask you about your brother-in-law, is he really going to break up with your sister? What is he going to do - is your trip for nothing? "

Li Erlang immediately said: "How can I! I also want to ask, but seeing Brother Wen's appearance, I just can't ask..." Li Erlang scratched his head: "It looks like a serious illness has hurt your vitality. I can't even say a serious word..."

Liu didn't believe it: "If he really suffers because of Xiner, why not come and chase Xiner back at this time?"

Li Erlang said: "I heard from my in-laws second brother that Brother Wen was going to chase after my sister, but he tripped twice, failed to catch up, and then fainted."

Mrs. Liu didn't believe it even more. Li Erlang said: "The second brother-in-law said, otherwise let his daughter-in-law come back with me to talk to my sister and persuade her to come back, but I refused." He hummed and said: "Brother Wen is now I'm sick, and when he recovers, I still need him to personally apologize to my sister and beg my sister to go back. Let the brothers and daughters-in-law come and persuade me to figure out what's going on."

Liu scolded: "You are a little clever." But she didn't say that he was wrong.

After thinking about it, he confirmed again: "You said your brother-in-law is really seriously ill?"

"Yeah, the one lying on the bed, his sister is taking care of him, and I saw that his eyes are still swollen like walnuts." Li Erlang swore.

Li Houzhong said: "Look, a son-in-law has a daughter in his heart."

"It's useless to have Xiner in my heart! Men are useless at critical times, and it's meaningless to keep Xiner in my heart."

Li Houzhong couldn't refute Liu Shi's words, but Liu Shi said to himself: "If you really suffer retribution, then you are sick..."

Li Erlang finished his meal a few times and went back to the house. Mrs. Zhang just lit the oil lamp and said, "Father, mother-in-law, just now Dajiang came and said that my aunt will deliver soup to Baotangmei tomorrow morning." Mi, if my mother-in-law is also going, let's go together."

Liu frowned: "Then rush?"

"That's what Da Jiang came to say." Mrs. Zhang said, "Maybe uncle wants to see Sister Baotang sooner."

Mrs. Liu nodded, "I'll get up earlier tomorrow." After thinking for a while, she said, "You won't go with me, stay at home and take care of the little ones. Let Xin'er go with me, hug me Little doll, add some luck."

Zhang should be.

(End of this chapter)